The Continental aesthetics reader / edited by Clive Cazeaux.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Nineteenth-century German aesthetics : Extracts from 'Analytic of aesthetic judgment' and 'Dialectic of aesthetic judgment', Critique of judgment / Immanuel Kant -- Extracts from Aesthetics: lectures on fine art / G.W.F. Hegel -- On truth and lie in an extramoral sense /. Friedrich Nietzsche -- Part 2. Phenomenology and hermeneutics : The origin of the work of art / Martin Heidegger -- What is writing? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Reality and its shadow / Emmanuel Levinas -- The world of the aesthetic object / Mikel Dufrenne -- The dialectics of outside and inside / Gaston Bachelard -- Aesthetics and hermeneutics / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- What is a text?: Explanation and understanding / Paul Ricoeur -- The death or decline of art -- Part 3. Marxism and critical theory : Private property and communism / Karl Marx -- Extracts from Minima moralia / Theodor W. Adorno -- Nature and revolution / Herbert Marcuse -- Heteroglassia in the novel / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Modernity versus postmodernity / Jürgen Habermas -- Part 4. Excess and affect : The unconscious / Sigmund Freud -- The original experience / Maurice Blanchot -- Sanctity, eroticism and solitude / Georges Bataille -- The agency of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud / Jacques Lacan -- Così fan tutti / Luce Irigaray -- Approaching abjection / Julia Kristeva -- Pornography, nostalgia, montage: a triad of the gaze / Slavoj Žižek -- Part 5. Embodiment and technology ; The work of art in the age of the mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- Eye and mind / Marice Merleau-Ponty -- The evil demon of images / Jean Baudrillard -- Gender is burning: questions of appropriation and subversion / Judith Butler -- The aesthetics of disappearance, part IV / Paul Virilio -- Part 6. Poststructuralism and postmodernism : The death of the author / Roland Barthes -- What is an author? Michel Foucault -- The parergon / Jacques Derrida -- The resistance to theory / Paul de Man -- The sublime and the avant-garde / Jean-François Lyotard -- The last painting or the portrait of God / Hélène Cixous -- Part 7. Aesthetic ontologies : Percept, affect, and concept / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- The new aesthetic paradigm / Félix Guattari -- Art, a fragment / Jean-Luc Nancy -- The melancholy angel / Giorgio Agamben -- Art and philosophy / Alain Badiou -- Aesthetics as politics / Jacques Rancière.